“The people watching at home”

People should die at home.

Conservative management was more effective than invasive management in acute non-Q-wave MI D Massel Evidence-Based Medicine 1998;3:177 This is a summary and appraisal of a randomised controlled trial of 920 patients with non-Q-wave myocardial infarction.' The two groups of patients were invasiveangiography and appropriate revascularisation-or conservative-radionuclide ventriculography and thall...

Why do people drink at home?

BACKGROUND The past 30 years have seen a shift in the culture concerning the consumption of alcohol in the UK. One of these is the increasing trend for adults to consume alcohol "at home". To date this is a development that has received little research attention. Participants and Methods Four focus groups (FG) of current drinkers who drank at home and reflected the views of both genders, differ...

Looking after Old People at Home

Effect of walking at home on heart functioning levels of people with heart failure

Background and Objectives: Heart failure is more common in the elderly than in the general population. Among the non-drug treatments, the easiest and most comprehensible method is direct implementation of sports program. Due to high cost of hospital care for patients with heart failure and complications, this study examined the effects of walking as a form of rehabilitation program. The subject...

The prognosis of falls in elderly people living at home.

BACKGROUND there are few longitudinal studies of the prognosis of falling at home. OBJECTIVE to determine outcomes in older people who fall once and more than once. DESIGN longitudinal prospective cohort study. SETTING primary care in the UK. SUBJECTS 1815 subjects over 75 who had a standardized and validated health check. METHOD annual interviews over 4 years. Practice records were u...